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SOLICITATION/CONTRACT FOR COMMERCIAL ITEMS

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December 2011

Page 275 of 305 (Rev. Amendment 4) described herein. DHS/OPO/FPS (the Government) will conduct this acquisition using the procedures of Part 12 in conjunction with FAR Part 15.

Proposals are due no later than 1300, Pacific Standard Time, 3 April 2012. Submissions shall be made via hard copy to:

DHS/NPPD/FPS

West Consolidated Contracting Group Attn: Jeannie Hoffman 32125 32nd Ave S.

Federal Way, WA 98001

Note: In addition to the hard copies, vendor shall submit an electronic version of the pricing schedule, the detailed breakdown, and technical proposal on Compact Disk (CD). Electronic version must be able to read with Microsoft Office 2003.

Any proposal received at the Government office designated in the RFP after the exact time for receipt of proposals specified above will be deemed “late” and will be considered only in accordance with the provisions set forth under FAR 52.212-1, Instructions to Offerors – Commercial Items, paragraph (f).

By submitting a proposal, the Contractor agrees to comply with all terms and conditions set forth in this RFP, including the Statement of Work (SOW).

Evaluation Criteria:

1. Proposals shall be evaluated using both price and non-price factors. For this requirement, the following non-price factors will be used and are listed in descending order of importance.

Relevant Past Performance Management Approach

2. The non-price factors, when combined, are considered to be significantly more important than price.

3. Efficient Competition. Non-price factors, when combined, are significantly more important than price. However, offerors are advised that the Government may not evaluate the technical proposals of all offerors under this RFP.

The government will first review the total evaluated price of all proposals received. The technical proposals of those offerors whose pricing is determined by the Contracting Officer to be most competitive may be reviewed prior to, or instead of, other technical proposals received.

Based on the initial review of these technical proposals, the government may not evaluate the technical proposals of other offerors, whose total evaluated pricing was higher than that of one already evaluated and already assigned the highest possible technical rating. This would occur when the Contracting Officer determines that any possible technical superiority of an unevaluated (and higher priced) technical proposal, over (a lower priced) one that was